Old School Biker Photography, Biker Poetry 30 years in the making.
01/29/10By Doug Barber
A unique first person view from inside the old school biker world. No other book has come close to encompassing the grit, and soul of a hard core biker’s life. Those who find inspiration, and solace living outside society’s conventions will take this book to heart.
“Living The Life” smells of gasoline, oil, and leather seasoned with sweat and beer. It echoes the rumble of V-Twin motorcycles, and voices shouting four letter words in a chorus against the confines of civility. It is a gathering of free souls finding their own place. It is what we were, what we are, and what we will always be. Freedom demands a high price on body and soul, leaving us crippled yet strong. It&! rsquo;s a collection of personal statements not meant to explain, or j ustify the biker existence. Reality holds no reverence for romance, and no remorse for the weak. Those who enter hell need know why they are there. Doug Barber ************************ Sorez’s poetic cadence draws you into Q-Ball’s lens where you are not just looking at some pictures, you are on the bike, riding with the pack, or just taking a solo run into the wind. From Basket Case to Road to Redemption Q-Ball and Sorez bring the Code of Ethics into ‘True 3D Soul’ with photo-word-graphics. Living the Life is more than a photo-documentary, or a poetry book, and it is deeper than a historical perspective, Living the Life is history in the making - a history that can open the pipes and blast down highways at the speed of light.
The Marriage of Biker Poetry
and Photographic Genius:
Q-Ball’s master lens and Sorez the Scribe’s road sharpened pen ignites the page with the lure of the steel pony, the rolling thunder, the chink, chink, chink of the gravel, and a brotherhood that rides forever towards the horizon. While there are many photo books that spread bikers and their motorcycles flat out across a coffee table, and certainly Biker Poetry is beginning to stand on its own in the poetry community, Living the Life is the ‘IMAX of Biker Nation.’
MarySusan Williams-Migneault
RoadHousePress
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Classic images of bikers from the 70’s and earlier are a hit among today’s discriminating enthusiasts. And it’s not just a case of looking back through rose colored glasses to motorcycling’s past. Rather it is the natural consequence when popular culture celebrates cartoonish exaggerations, and shuns the genuine.
Doug Barber’s photos remind us of a time when the bikes, and the people that rode them were the real deal. Thankfully, Doug was there living it; not just as an observer from the outside. This collection of images combined with the words of Sorez the Scribe provides a unique glimpse into our culture’s past. For those that lived, partied and rode during that time it’s a memory book of sorts. For the new generation it represents the path less chosen, inspiration, and a history book of our two-wheeled forefathers.
Living the life, it’s good for your soul.”
Todd Ingram
Editorial Director
Iron Horse Magazine
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Living the Life
Photographs by Doug Barber, aka Q-Ball
Poems by Eddie(Sorez)Pliska, aka Sorez the Scribe
designed by Eric Wheatley
Published and Printed in the United States of America.
Published by Lowside Syndicate.
www.lowsidesyn.com
Printed by Ridge Printing.
8900 Yellow Brick Rd. | Baltimore, MD 21237
www.ridgeprinting.com
First Edition January 2010
This edition is limited to 3,000 copies.
ISBN 978-0-615-34271-9
Library of Congress Control Number: 2010920255
Copyright 2009 Doug Barber
Sample pages from Living the Life can be found on www.lowsidesyn.com/livingthelife.html
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